Facing restrictions on Reddit, tankie subreddits, r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou, transitioned to Lemmygrad.ml, a Marxist/Leninist online platform. Tankies’ move not only made them dominant voices on Lemmygrad.ml but also seemed to amplify the overall toxic tone on the platform.
Yeah, this right here is why Lemmy will never take off, this place is toxic as hell thanks to the tankies.
It’s problematic for Lemmy that the .ml instance gives the impression of a flagship instance since it’s run by the devs. It gives the fediverse as a whole a bad look to outsiders. I speak from experience because it was one of the three recommended to me before I left Reddit.
Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.
Gab and Truth.social are forks of Mastodon, but I don’t see “Mastodon is full of alt-right garbage people” as an argument against using it anywhere. probably because they’re unconnected from everyone else.
Yeah, this right here is why Lemmy will never take off, this place is toxic as hell thanks to the tankies.
It’s problematic for Lemmy that the .ml instance gives the impression of a flagship instance since it’s run by the devs. It gives the fediverse as a whole a bad look to outsiders. I speak from experience because it was one of the three recommended to me before I left Reddit.
if only there was a way for admins of an instance to block federation with certain instances, we could call it “unconnecting”
Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.
Gab and Truth.social are forks of Mastodon, but I don’t see “Mastodon is full of alt-right garbage people” as an argument against using it anywhere. probably because they’re unconnected from everyone else.
they are forks, lemmygrad, hexbear are integrated with many major lemmy instances
Posted from .world…
Have the posts grad is full of bothered you recently? You know, there’s a reason why not.
ML definitely has some tankies, not all, but some of the people there are lemmygradesque